The first thought that goes through the mind of all right-thinking people when they get a broadband Internet connection is How can I use all of this bandwidth, all day long?

People who are still stuck with dial-up modem Internet access care deeply about bandwidth, too, for much the same reason that drowning people care deeply about air.

So how can broadband users stretch the limits of their high-speed link, and what's meanest to a modem? Read on.